Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Suspected car burglar caught in Roseville

-Roseville Press Tribune

A suspected car burglar is in custody at Placer County jail after leading Roseville police on a neighborhood search that lasted more than one hour.

Justin Karl Sennert, 23, of Paradise, allegedly broke the window of a locked vehicle in the 600 block of Lilly Cross Drive and stole a purse shortly after 7 a.m. Tuesday, according to Dee Dee Gunther of the Roseville Police Department.

Gunther said neighbors witnessed the burglary and reported the suspect, a white male wearing baggy blue jeans and a gray sweatshirt, fleeing through a backyard.

Sennert evaded police for more than one hour by running through and hiding in neighborhood backyards, Gunther said.

Roseville police, with the help of an off-duty Auburn police detective and a Placer County Sheriff canine deputy, conducted a yard-to-yard search in the area where Sennert had last been seen, Gunther said.

Sennert was finally located under a pile of pillows in a shed that he had locked behind himself in the backyard of a Grider Drive home, Gunther said.

Sennert was ordered out and taken into custody without incident, Gunther said. Officers also located the victim’s purse with all of its contents and returned it to the victim.

Sennert is being held in the Placer County Jail without bail on suspicion of burglary, trespassing, possessing stolen property and parole violation.